Robert Maldonado, a 47-year-old Pacoima resident who owns a dump truck company, was arrested Friday and released Saturday on $50,000 bail.

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:01:00 -08002015-03-02T00:01:00-08:002015-03-02T22:20:39-08:00Today's Los Angeles city election will test both the strength of City Hall incumbents and a proposal to move city election dates.

Turnout is expected to be low as voters face numerous City Council, school board and community college trustee races and two ballot measures to move elections.

Highlighting the advantage held by sitting politicians, all of City Hall incumbents on the ballot are backed by major labor and business groups.

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:32:36 -08002015-03-02T20:32:36-08:002015-03-02T21:51:10-08:00Surf City USA, aka Huntington Beach, received a white dusting of hail Monday, just one aspect of a freak winter weather event that unleashed scattered thunderstorms and dropped snowflakes in the local mountains but failed to end the drought.

The second storm to land in Southern California in several days may bring drizzles to hamper today's morning commute before scampering eastward, weather forecasters said.

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 19:44:37 -08002015-03-02T19:44:37-08:002015-03-02T21:16:08-08:00America's newly appointed top doctor made a house call to Los Angeles County on Monday to examine the region and to gather as much information as he could to help him assess the nation's most pressing public health concerns.

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After several days of wet, chilly weather and being bombarded at times by hail, San Fernando Valley residents will see some familiar scenery likely by Tuesday afternoon.

Milder weather is on the way, said Kathy Hoxsie, a forecaster at the National Weather Service station in Oxnard.

But the wild ride will likely continue tonight and into Tuesday morning.

Standing inside LAPD headquarters downtown beside pictures mounted on poster board, Beck said the images showed that the holstered gun's slide had been partially pulled back and the magazine had been dislodged from its resting place -- which he said were "indicative of a struggle over the weapon.

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:57:30 -08002015-03-02T11:57:30-08:002015-03-02T16:23:10-08:00Rail service through Ventura County returned to normal Monday after a train plowed into a vehicle stuck on the tracks for the second time in less than a week, officials said.]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:59:28 -08002015-03-02T14:59:28-08:002015-03-02T14:59:28-08:00Homes sales in the San Fernando Valley sank to a record low in January as the market slump intensified in the face of rising prices and continued tight inventory, according to a trade association.

During January, sales of previously owned houses fell 12 percent from a year earlier to 307 units, the fewest for any month since record keeping began more than 30 years ago, said the Van Nuys-based Southland Regional Association of Realtors.

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 12:00:06 -08002015-03-02T12:00:06-08:002015-03-02T12:00:06-08:00Authorities in Ventura County today reopened a stretch of Pacific Coast Highway that was closed Sunday after a predawn mudslide northwest of Mugu Rock, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The area is beyond the stretch of roadway near Malibu that was closed for 77 says to repair mudslides and related coastal wave erosion.

Heavy smoke and fire were reported at 8:44 a.m. at a one-story commercial building in the 15400 block of Cabrito Road in Van Nuys.

The fire was confined to the building, and there were no injuries, Humphrey said.

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:21:59 -08002015-03-02T09:21:59-08:002015-03-02T09:29:25-08:00LOS ANGELES >> A day of blustery and inconsistent weather -- with some areas sunny and others sodden -- ended with a very-strong thunderstorm bearing down on downtown Los Angeles and Hollywood.

The National Weather Service issued an alert at 9:18 p.m., warning that its radar was tracking a line of strong thunderstorm cells from Hawthorne to near downtown Los Angeles.

An Amtrak train heading toward Los Angeles hit a vehicle in Ventura County Sunday night, just a few miles away from the site of last week's big derailment, but there were no injuries and the train did not tip over, firefighters said.

The Ventura County Fire Department reported that the crash was at Fifth Street at Pleasant Valley Road, in Camarillo.

Officers responded to radio calls in the afternoon of a possible robbery in progress and a battery at 545 San Pedro St.

]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2015 18:09:02 -08002015-03-01T18:09:02-08:002015-03-01T18:09:02-08:00On a whim, Blake Alexander traveled from his Los Angeles apartment to the Salton Sea last May. It was the first time after a four-year absence of visiting when he discovered what had happened to one of the world's largest lakes.]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2015 17:44:29 -08002015-03-01T17:44:29-08:002015-03-01T17:44:29-08:00